[Tiste Simeon]

That's pretty much exactly how I imagine life in Australia to be...

[Tiste Simeon]

I just signed up to do the Great North Run next year. I am a bit overweight and terribly unfit so I'm now panicking about the decision! I know there's a year to get fit but shessh why did I do that??

Anyway I think it is a good decision though I will no doubt hate myself for it many times over the coming year... It'll be a good motivator to get fit and I'll be raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK so it's all in the name of a good cause.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

 Tiste Simeon, on 20 September 2018 - 01:00 PM, said:

I just signed up to do the Great North Run next year. I am a bit overweight and terribly unfit so I'm now panicking about the decision! I know there's a year to get fit but shessh why did I do that??

Anyway I think it is a good decision though I will no doubt hate myself for it many times over the coming year... It'll be a good motivator to get fit and I'll be raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK so it's all in the name of a good cause.

It's amazing what a date in the diary will do to motivate you - I couldn't get myself out the door to exercise for love nor money earlier in the year, then when Dad and I decided to do the Three Peaks I've genuinely not had a problem with it since. Goals are great motivation - best of luck!

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 20 September 2018 - 01:37 PM

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 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 20 September 2018 - 01:36 PM, said:

 Tiste Simeon, on 20 September 2018 - 01:00 PM, said:

I just signed up to do the Great North Run next year. I am a bit overweight and terribly unfit so I'm now panicking about the decision! I know there's a year to get fit but shessh why did I do that??

Anyway I think it is a good decision though I will no doubt hate myself for it many times over the coming year... It'll be a good motivator to get fit and I'll be raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK so it's all in the name of a good cause.

It's amazing what a date in the diary will do to motivate you - I couldn't get myself out the door to exercise for love nor money earlier in the year, then when Dad and I decided to do the Three Peaks I've genuinely not had a problem with it since. Goals are great motivation - best of luck!

^This.

Tiste, you'll do great! A year is plenty of time to ramp up to the challenge ahead. And I bet you'll feel amazing about doing it.

[Tiste Simeon]

Thanks both. Got to wait to hear if ARUK will accept me as one of their runners. I only went with them cos they are who my friends are running with, but they are going with a group organised by someone whose spaces filled up very quickly so I have to sign up as an individual. Not sure what I'll do if they don't accept me but I don't see any reason why they won't...

[Macros]

Just get someone to be at the finish line with a beer and a cheeseburger for you.

Record times ho!

[Tiste Simeon]

 Macros, on 20 September 2018 - 03:32 PM, said:

Just get someone to be at the finish line with a beer and a cheeseburger for you.

Record times ho!

That... Would actually work!

[JPK]

So the Mrs and I have been planning on when we want our second kid and have decided to aim for 2019. Well, I got to work this morning to find that they're implementing a new 8 week Parental leave in q1 2019 and that it can be started after the short term disability pay of 8 weeks that the Mrs will qualify for when she delivers.

Long story short, she'll now qualify for 16 weeks full pay, and I'll qualify for 8 weeks full pay when we'd have another kid. We're in the States so this is huge for us.

[Slow Ben]

 JPK, on 20 September 2018 - 05:12 PM, said:

So the Mrs and I have been planning on when we want our second kid and have decided to aim for 2019. Well, I got to work this morning to find that they're implementing a new 8 week Parental leave in q1 2019 and that it can be started after the short term disability pay of 8 weeks that the Mrs will qualify for when she delivers.

Long story short, she'll now qualify for 16 weeks full pay, and I'll qualify for 8 weeks full pay when we'd have another kid. We're in the States so this is huge for us.

Damn progressives. It should be 8 week unpaid for the mother and none for the father like everywhere else.



But seriously, thats freaking awesome.

[JPK]

 Slow Ben, on 20 September 2018 - 05:20 PM, said:

 JPK, on 20 September 2018 - 05:12 PM, said:

So the Mrs and I have been planning on when we want our second kid and have decided to aim for 2019. Well, I got to work this morning to find that they're implementing a new 8 week Parental leave in q1 2019 and that it can be started after the short term disability pay of 8 weeks that the Mrs will qualify for when she delivers.

Long story short, she'll now qualify for 16 weeks full pay, and I'll qualify for 8 weeks full pay when we'd have another kid. We're in the States so this is huge for us.

Damn progressives. It should be 8 week unpaid for the mother and none for the father like everywhere else.



But seriously, thats freaking awesome.

Previous to this the policy was 2 weeks full pay into (up to) 10 weeks half pay as disability for the mother only. You might see why I'm so shocked by this change.

[Messremb]

 JPK, on 20 September 2018 - 05:26 PM, said:

 Slow Ben, on 20 September 2018 - 05:20 PM, said:

 JPK, on 20 September 2018 - 05:12 PM, said:

So the Mrs and I have been planning on when we want our second kid and have decided to aim for 2019. Well, I got to work this morning to find that they're implementing a new 8 week Parental leave in q1 2019 and that it can be started after the short term disability pay of 8 weeks that the Mrs will qualify for when she delivers.

Long story short, she'll now qualify for 16 weeks full pay, and I'll qualify for 8 weeks full pay when we'd have another kid. We're in the States so this is huge for us.

Damn progressives. It should be 8 week unpaid for the mother and none for the father like everywhere else.



But seriously, thats freaking awesome.

Previous to this the policy was 2 weeks full pay into (up to) 10 weeks half pay as disability for the mother only. You might see why I'm so shocked by this change.

I'm constantly amazed by just how inhuman the USA is. Quoting gov.uk;

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Statutory Maternity Leave is 52 weeks. It’s made up of:

Ordinary Maternity Leave - first 26 weeks
Additional Maternity Leave - last 26 weeks

You don’t have to take 52 weeks but you must take 2 weeks’ leave after your baby is born (or 4 weeks if you work in a factory).

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Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid for up to 39 weeks. You get:

- 90% of your average weekly earnings (before tax) for the first 6 weeks
- £145.18 or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is lower) for the next 33 weeks

Mrs Messremb has a few months left to run on the year she's taken off work. Alas they don't double the paid section for twins!

Happy? Brewed this afternoon for the first time since the babies arrived, should be a nice dark 7.5% porter.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Off on holiday for a week! Off walking round Northumberland!

[Macros]

I'm on the the train to the airport in bits.

What's making me happy?

The wallet full of money, very successful night at poker this morning, and I declared in advance that 50% of all winning will go towards my cousin's physiotherapy fund. Delighted to be able to drop a square packet into the jar for that

[Puck]

 amphibian, on 20 September 2018 - 12:16 AM, said:

 Puck, on 17 September 2018 - 12:00 PM, said:

I'm not on the verge of a panic attack anymore when my phone at work rings, despite just having had a rough week with a surprise depressive episode. I call that a victory

You sound so much more resilient than you were a couple years ago. Way to go. I'm really happy for you.

Thank you! It's honestly as much due to the support on here as due to any other factor.

[Slow Ben]

The wife and kids are out of town.

I just took a 3 1/2 hour nap.

It was unexplainably amazing.

[Andorion]

 Briar King, on 28 September 2018 - 07:51 PM, said:

Har got a king snake in my wood rack poking its head out at me.

This is a good thing?

[Messremb]

 Briar King, on 25 September 2018 - 04:18 AM, said:

I just copied the paperboy!! Ha

I think this one probably requires some explaining too

[worry]

I think it means he had public pre-dawn sex in a pickup truck.

[Andorion]

 Briar King, on 29 September 2018 - 09:04 PM, said:

The paperboy was highly amused when I told him I took a page out his book to that night.

Wait. Did you have sex with the paperboy, or like the paperboy? Is early morning sex a common thing in your neighbourhood?

Every time BK talks about the little things in his life, he adds further detail to this fascinating portrait I have about life in Louisiana.

[Mentalist]

making birthday plans again. sent out invites via facebook, a very conservative shortlist had like 40 people on it.

Everytime I do this, it makes me feel I must be doing something right in life, if I have this many close people in my life.